Mar 18, 2012

NJC is starting a series on using the Launchpad as a home automation device. He starts with baby steps on how to use the ACLK or the 32Khz crystal to properly keep time and also discusses some crystal basics. The other day I decided to build a timer to control some lights in my apartment. As I hope to expand this mini project into a full-fledged home automation...

Mar 12, 2012

Opossum shared his DCO characterization program if you need to analyze the MSP430′s DCO. This firmware will measure the frequency of all 4,096 possible DCO settings and send that information to the host computer as CSV (comma separated values) data at 2400 bps. Just capture the serial data to a text file and view it in your favorite spreadsheet program....

Mar 12, 2012

Rob updated his thread on the multiple Color LCD BoosterPack. The Boosterpack PCBs are now in. First pic is gibberish, but he’s getting...

Mar 2, 2012

Nate strikes once again with his MSP430 skills. In the below video he shows the MSP430 microcontroller controlling the Parrot AR Drone Quadcopter. The MSP430 sends drone commands to the PC via a FTDI chip. A simple c++ application receives these commands and relays it to the quad via UDP commands.   Make sure to check out Nate’s other MSP430...

Feb 26, 2012

Nate, aka username, is working on a tool to control all the peripherals on a MSP430 controller. He’s currently using the top of the value line series – MSP430G2553 –  to test his GUI, which is coded in VC++. This GUI would be very handy to have from a hardware/software test debug standpoint. For example, say I wanted to test out some SPI...

As the title says, the video shows an ez430 Chronos controlling a LEGO NXT. The video unfortunately has no documentation. Could anyone guess on how this was done? The ez430 does have a CC430 which has an integrated transceiver, but what about the NXT side? pGC – NXT controlled by eZ430 Chronos –...